Big Ten expansion, realignment prediction: Pac-12’s Oregon, Washington to join conference

School convention realignment and growth hypothesis is again for the Huge Ten Convention.

Might the convention add some groups from the Pac-12?

One school insider has come out with an attention-grabbing prediction for the Huge Ten in school growth chatter.

The author, CBS Sports activities’ Dennis Dodd, predicts that the convention will add Oregon and Washington if the Pac-12 falls aside amid its media rights deal saga.

Of the potential of the 2 Pac-12 colleges probably becoming a member of the Huge 10, Dodd wrote: “Assuming the 4 Corners bolt first, that creates a choice for what would grow to be the 2 largest out there manufacturers within the nation. Key phrase ‘out there’ as a result of, with the league crumbling round it, Oregon and Washington would have choices. And their best choice would possible be the Huge Ten.”

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Dodd additional defined that Oregon and Washington aligned academically with the convention and that they’d be a pure match within the convention alongside USC and UCLA, “mitigating journey points” within the convention for the faculties.

Dodd wrote: “An 18-team league would make the Huge Ten the most important within the historical past of major-college soccer. It could create vital scheduling points and end in balking from present rightsholders, who can be requested to pay extra. Maybe a streaming service would get entangled to defer prices. Greatest guess: Oregon and Washington would take lower than a full Huge Ten share (estimated $75 million per faculty beginning in 2024) a minimum of initially to be a part of the richest convention within the land.”

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Geese Wire additionally projected the Huge Ten to land Oregon and Washington from the Pac-12.

Zachary Neel wrote of his Oregon prediction: “The Geese are among the many largest out there manufacturers in the marketplace, and you may assure that the Huge Ten would welcome them with open arms ought to they ne in search of a brand new convention to play in. One of many prime groups in school soccer, and traditionally aggressive in school basketball, the Geese match properly within the Huge Ten on the huge boys’ desk.”

Of Washington and the Huge Ten, he wrote: “The Huskies would completely be a part of the best with Oregon to the Huge Ten. They’ve a big media market and are among the many prime out there manufacturers within the sport as properly. With USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington, the Huge Ten would have an amazing begin to a western convention.”

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Might Oregon and Washington actually land within the Huge Ten?

It is one thing to observe as school soccer convention growth and realignment hypothesis continues to swirl.

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